I seriously doubt any hostages or pow's have survived , and hamas knows their fate will follow suit if they lay down their arms Grau
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Since the hostages are both civilian and IDF members, you are accurate in calling them "hostages or POWs".
It is certainly clear that IDF has killed a large number of hostages with its indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets, trigger-happy IDFers and starvation blockade that prevents the most basic life sustaining supplies from reaching Gaza's civilians, the hostages or the POWs.
Just as thousands of Gaza's people have died from Israel's starvation and medical supply blockade, I don't see why life would be any easier for the hostages / POWs who also must also be dying from lack of food or the most basic medical supplies.
You're also right about what will happen to those who think that surrender / appeasement will make life any easier for Palestine's native residents.
We need only look at what happened to unarmed Palestinians in the past (1) to see their future under today's genocidal Zionist rule.
Or...
In addition to the Nakba, we've just seen what happens when Palestinians "lay down their arms".
One of thousands of examples occurred recently in the West Bank where Israel's genocidal "Settler" land thieves murdered over 120 West Bank Palestinians(2) who had nothing to do with 7 October 2023.
Palestine's native residents who continue to resist the oldest and most brutal foreign funded occupation / genocide in modern history have learned over and over that foreign Zionist terrorist gangs and Palestine's infestation of recently arrived, right wing militant "Settlers" have absolutely no interest in a just and durable peace.
Israel's relentless "Settlements" (Lebensraum) expansionism is irrefutable proof that Israel's right wing regime(s) will neither abide by International Law nor agree to stop their systematic extermination of Palestine's native residents.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
(1) “Deir Yasin Massacre, 09.04.1948”
EXCERPT " One of the worst Zionist massacres committed against Palestinians is the Deir Yasin massacre. Defenceless Palestinian civilians were tortured before being massacres and their bodies mutilated. Women and children were raped, babies were butchered and pregnant women were bayoneted." CONTINUED
(2). "Israel Must Loudly Arrest the Murderous West Bank Settlers"
Or risk losing any moral authority in this war.
slate.com
3, November 2023
EXCERPT "Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack,
settlers there have killed more than 120 Palestinians and injured at least 2,000. They have forcibly expelled more than 800 Palestinians from their homes, blown up their generators and solar panels, and burned down tents of Bedouin herders.
Again: This has been going on not in Gaza but in the West Bank—which is governed by the Palestinian Authority, not by Hamas." CONTINUED